St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-12-01

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ing me 100 bushels, worth 40 cents pc
bushel, or SOS; eight acres of ln,lii
wheat, good yield, 240 bushels, wortl
40 cents per bushel, or $96; two acre,
of corn ON green sward, worth $40 81,
acres of potatoes, very light, four acres
of which, now dug, yielded 800 bushels
same average on balance of the field
will give me 400 bushels, worth Is
cents per buslel, S3IS.5O; making a
total of my farm crops, $948.5O. The
items of the abOve-named crops
have been as follows: Paid out for help
six months, commencing May l, $3.50;
fertilizers, 35 seed, paris green, repairs
on tools, 1880; interest, 174.6O; pro-
visions and supplies, not including
clothing, 64.72; making total of
S443.S2. Deducting this from the gross
product of the farm, a balance remains
of $5O4.78. / have raised 100 bushels
of cider apples and enough good ap-
pies for family use. shall have fifty
chickens TO sell and probably fifty
turkeys. Besides this, l have raised
beans, vegetables, nuts, and popcorn
for own use. l am fattening two pigs
and our beef for winter use. A nice
trout stream runs through the farm.
The hens and the two cows give us
fresh eggs and butter for family use,
with some to sell.
am no dairy farmer. l owe $1,000
on my farm, and am, to use a famil-
lar expression, going to skin my farm
until the mortgage is paid off. / pro-
contracted to sell $4,000 feet of hard
wood lumber at $40 per thousand feet,
delivered at the mill. | shall pay for
the cutting and drawing $3.50 per
thousand feet, leaving me $3.50 net, or
275 total. / shall sell $50 bushels of
potatoes at 65 cents per bushel, 1927
50 +; 25 tons of hay at SO per ton, 5000;
200 bushels India wheat, $50; poultry
and grain, 800; making total of
$882.5O. l shall then have enough
left to winter my stock, to use for seed
and even then have some hay, grain
and potatoes left over in the spring to
sell. can pay at least $500 of the $1,000
mortgage note by April next. have not
worked half as hard as | did i'm BOs-
ton to earn, in the latter place, very
poor living in IA very cheap tenement.
From the first of November until May
j, all | earned Oh my farm was my
frewood and about 400 lbs. of sugar.
However, in November l plowed five
year have seeded down sixteen acres
of ground that will give me 20 tons
more of hay next year. l have COM
menced blowing old run-Out moving,
and shall take in six acres more of
pasture another year.
Now if a poor man can do any better
in the West than have done in YER
mont, / can only say, let him go out
there. In this section are hundreds of
farms that can be bought for from $500
to $4,000 each on easy terms, and farms
which any ablebodied man can own,
near railroads, villages, schools and
good roads. Why such farms are for
sale at such prices, am at loss to
know, except that the young people
have gone to the cities to drive horse
cars or work in stores for starvation
wages. The time is soon coming when
these old farms will be worth some
thing, and when intelligent men will
desire their purchase. This may not
be the best county in the state, but it
is good enough for me.
Why do not the workingmen of Bos-
ton, those who originally came from
the farm and who have got a few
hundred dollars laid by, get up colo
ny and come up here and live7 1t
makes me sick to think of
going back to the city to live. l say
to all men of moderate means, come to
Vermont and live. Game is plenty,
fishing excellent, the air pure and dry,
the scenery beyond anything l ever
saw before, and, above all, the people
are ready to greet you with hearty
welcome.